Entries from May 2019 ↓

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  RT @AriBerman: 🚨🚨New docs show that architect of GOP gerrymandering was behind Trump’s push to add citizenship question to 2020 ce…
• Tracking Down JoAnn Morgan, a Semi-Hidden Figure of U.S. Space History | Vanity Fair
• Apollo 11: Home | NEON
• architect-of-gop-gerrymandering-was-behind-trumps-census-citizenship-question

  Architect of GOP Gerrymandering Was Behind Trump’s Census Citizenship Question

• Make a Contribution to NARAL Pro-Choice America | NARAL
• A Sudden Illness – How My Life Changed, by Laura Hillenbrand
• Twitter
  RT @JamilSmith: “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” @ava told me about @WhenTheySeeUs. “SELMA was hard. But this was very diff…
• ‘When They See Us’: Ava DuVernay on Her Central Park Five Miniseries – Rolling Stone
• Opinion | It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning – The New York Times
• Seattle startup led by former VMware execs raises $4.7M for ‘machine-learning-in-a-box’ service – GeekWire

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  RT @IWW_IWOC: Thoughtcrime update.

  Bon Appetit, Danielle Steel, and the Oxford Atlas of the World
  are banned in Kansas prisons.

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  RT @neilhimself: This thread. Unbelievable.
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  RT @MontereyAq: here to kelp
• The Incels Getting Extreme Plastic Surgery to Become ‘Chads’
• Mueller: Trump is Not Not a Criminal
• Intersectionality, explained: meet Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term – Vox
• Twitter
  RT @bjlefebvre: DOE now calling natural gas “freedom gas.” Not a joke. H/t @SStapczynski
• Twitter
  RT @AngryBlackLady: It’s literally the least bizarre aspect of Thomas’s concurrence.

  How many times have people like @Hegemommy,…

• Twitter
  RT @NatashaBertrand: If anyone knows Mueller, it’s @vermontgmg
• The Seattle Review of Books – "It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning."
• ‘A white-collar sweatshop’: Google Assistant contractors allege wage theft | Technology | The Guardian
• Twitter
  RT @JessLivMo: I was keeping my mouth shut on this, but now I must ask: is this an anti diversity measure? Is the DNC *trying* to…
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  RT @ewarren: Mueller’s statement makes clear what those who have read his report know: It is an impeachment referral, and it’s u…
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  RT @grahamfarmelo: Sublime shot by Canadian photographer Steve Biro:
• KubeFlow BoF: David Aronchick, Microsoft & Yaron Haviv, Iguazio – YouTube
• An Audience of Athletes: The Rise and Fall of Feminist Sports
• Kansas Supreme Court abortion opinion cited in court | The Kansas City Star

  Thank you KS Supreme Court, our saving grace through years of far-right attacks on public ed, women’s autonomy & more. May your ruling help legal battles across country.

  On that note, USA do not sleep on far right’s long-game to create partisan judiciary

  https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article230715544.html

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  RT @RAICESTEXAS: "Fathers screamed and cried loudly for their children. Others vomited blood and shook uncontrollably."

  We’re suing…

• Twitter
  RT @AOC: The reason women are critiqued for being too loud or too meek, too big or too small, too smart to be attractive or…
• Nicole Fosse on Her Father Bob, Her Mother Gwen, and Herself
• What if They Made a Dirty Rom-Com About People Who Looked Like Them? – The New York Times
• Tornadoes touched down around Kansas City area | News | kctv5.com
• Twitter
  RT @tanyaofmars: Clouds over @MarsCuriosity on Friday night.

  Mars is a dynamic and beautiful place. ❤️

• Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time Employees – The New York Times
• Nearly 40% of Americans can’t cover a surprise $400 expense – CBS News
• Twitter
  RT @MarkTercek: New research from @nature_org and @wwf shows the world we can meet climate targets without further loss of free-flo…
• The Wing Seattle

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  RT @ericgeller: cool cool cool
• Towards Kubeflow 1.0, Bringing a Cloud Native Platform For ML to Kubernetes – David Aronchick – YouTube
• [Shared] Road To Kubeflow 1.0 Kubecon Barcelona 2019 PDF
• David Whitley, the Texas elections official who questioned the citizenship of almost 100,000 people, resigns – The Washington Post
• Twitter
  RT @MoiraDonegan: A great example of how political commentary doesn’t just describe reality, but also creates it. The more dumb, sexi…
• Twitter
  RT @soledadobrien: It truly is a weekend of wtf for the @nytimes Bad reporting. Poor framing. Terrible editing. Bad decision making. J…
• ‘People aren’t disabled, their city is’: inside Europe’s most accessible city | Cities | The Guardian
• Fathers’ work pattern unaffected by arrival of children, study finds
• Mueller drew up obstruction indictment against Trump, Michael Wolff book claims | US news | The Guardian
• Twitter
  RT @michikokakutani: Trump administration seeking to undermine the very science on which climate change policy rests. This assault on s…
• Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science – The New York Times

  Trump administration’s efforts to undermine climate-change research go into an even higher gear: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/us/politics/trump-climate-science.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

• Twitter
  RT @triketora: this is for all those reply guys and dm sliders asking me why i’m so angry / telling me to smile more

  (book is ra…

• Opinion | The Indian Law That Helps Build Walls – The New York Times

  If you’re not paying attention to Indian law bc you think it doesn’t affect you, you are wrong & you should.

  Some of the biggest legal threats to human rights come from the oppression of Native Americans, and still (STILL!) no one pays attention.

  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/opinion/american-indian-law-trump.html?fbclid=IwAR3zHCs8aWfp9sxWtQKWb–73lWrYFh8TbrdEJlGSEBgFSpaqYX2e94xAeI

• Elizabeth Warren is the intellectual powerhouse of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan | Opinion | The Guardian
• Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science – The New York Times

  Trump administration seeking to undermine the very science on which climate change policy rests. This assault on science is underway throughout the government.
  important story by @CoralMDavenport and @MarkLandler
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/us/politics/trump-climate-science.html

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• How To Add A Security Key To Your Gmail (Tech Solidarity)
• David Aronchick on Twitter: "NBD just using neural architecture search to build a model that has best in class results on CIFAR a bit faster. Oh did I say a bit? I mean TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED times faster. (Less than one GPU instead of 1800) https://t
• How Keanu Reeves’s Stunt Double Became His Director

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  RT @StigAbell: Elton John wins the award for the best diary entry ever (quoted in today’s Observer).

  “Woke up, watched Grandstand…

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  RT @animalIife: The Stunning Green Vine Snake
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  RT @Rainmaker1973: This is what the inside of a tardigrade looks like
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  RT @Yascha_Mounk: Very sobering result from Poland, probably today’s most important battleground between populists and democrats in E…
• Twitter
  "Human Fat Was Once a Medicine With a Black Market"
  (recommend reading while eating lunch)
• Beauty of Green Vine Snake – YouTube
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019: Towards Kubeflow 1.0, Bringing a Cloud N…
• Twitter
  RT @DannyDeraney: I am today days old knowing there is such a thing as sewing birds.
• GitHub – aronchick/kubeflow-and-mlops
• GitHub – jlewi/kubecon_gh_demo: Repository for the Kubecon Europe 2018 demo on GitHub issue summarization
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019: Towards Kubeflow 1.0, Bringing a Cloud N…
• KubeFlow BoF: David Aronchick, Microsoft & Yaron Haviv, Iguazio – YouTube
• Why violence against transgender Americans is a crisis that’s under reported | PBS NewsHour
• Peering Inside a Tardigrade | DiscoverMagazine.com
• Opinion | How to Get Every Email Returned – The New York Times
• GoogleCloudPlatform/edu-resources: Curated List of GCP educational resources
  Curated List of GCP educational resources
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  RT @sarahkendzior: These are crimes and impeachable offenses. How does anyone justify not using every legal tool in their power to sto…
• Twitter
  RT @DanRather: We have a president of the United States wink at a murderous dictator to mock a former vice president? As what? A c…
• Twitter
  RT @JuliusGoat: A highly experienced, qualified, and vetted candidate is "identity politics" because she’s a woman.

  Voting for a s…

• Twitter
  RT @JuliusGoat: Never will stop being amazing to me, that a female candidate is "identity politics" but an unbroken string of male…
• Mom Influencers Are Just Trying to Get Paid for Their Labor—And That’s OK | Topic
• Twitter
  RT @NewYorkerRadio: After Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Case for Reparations” came out, @ewarren asked to meet, one-on-one, and talk about it:…
• Twitter
  RT @nicoleperlroth: NEW: Baltimore was hit with an NSA hacking tool that is being used to hijack U.S. cities. ⁦@ScottShaneNYT⁩ and I sp…
• Twitter
  RT @Bertrom: #JamesBaldwin. A brilliant writer and wonderful human being. “I imagine one of the reasons people cling…
• Twitter
  RT @Maria_Hinojosa: What i have always said. You think they are just coming for the immigrants. It’s just not that way. Violation of du…
• Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert | Life and style | The Guardian
• Twitter
  RT @saladinahmed: This is a great time to donate to the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, who work with trans people in pa…
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  RT @TransEquality: 🚨 💙 We need you to help us
  🚨 💗 #ProtectTransHealth.
  🚨 ⚪️ Submit a comment
  🚨 💙 directly to the
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• In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc – The New York Times
• Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations | The New Yorker Radio Hour | WNYC Studios
• Twitter
  RT @dakami: This is an absolutely brutal takedown of the political reality of the anti-housing movement…
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/california-housing-nimby.html)
  RT @dakami: This is an absolutely brutal takedown of the political reality of the anti-housing movement…
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  Shape Of Character – Waxed Canvas

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  RT @PamKeithFL: Fun fact:

  Gambling is illegal in Hawaii but totally legal in Nevada.

  Question:

  Should Hawaii be able to prosecu…

• Elliott Brossard on Twitter: "Game of Thrones Twitter Sentiment with Keras, Apache Beam, BigQuery and PubSub by Thomas Dehaene https://t.co/nKabVHAprf"
• > A.I. Took a Test to Detect Lung Cancer. It Got an A. – The New York Times
• Move 9 women freed after 40 years in jail over Philadelphia police siege | US news | The Guardian
• Rare Photos of Bill Murray, Stevie Nicks, Martin Scorsese and Other Celebrities in the 1970s
• The Penetrating Gaze of One of America’s Most Brilliant Art Critics – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @NormalComposers: Dmitri Shostakovich walking his cat with his wife in the snow.
• Twitter
  RT @ruthbenghiat: “I am convinced that I am destined to rule Italy for 10-15 years more.” Mussolini, when he was PM of a coalition go…
• Twitter
  RT @nytimes: Chinese intelligence agents acquired NSA hacking tools and repurposed them to attack American allies and private co…
• Facebook real-name policy controversy – Wikipedia
  RT @paulconstant: Hmmmmm. I’m old enough to remember Facebook’s real name policy.
• Twitter
  RT @paulconstant: Hmmmmm. I’m old enough to remember Facebook’s real name policy.
• Twitter
  RT @dhnexon: ❌ Norms will protect us.

  ❌ Adults in the room will prevail.

  ❌ Institutions will adequately constrain.

  ❌ GOP offi…

• Why Working Till Whenever Is a Risky Retirement Strategy – The New York Times
• Federal Judge Blocks Mississippi’s Anti-Abortion, Fetal ‘Heartbeat’ Bill – Essence
• All the best new crime fiction for summer 2019 | The Seattle Times
• 50 New Books Of Summer 2019 To Read By The Pool, In The Park, And On The Beach
• Wrangler’s ‘Old Town Road’ slammed for cowboy ‘cultural appropriation’
• Twitter
  RT @WIREDScience: Super-soaked spring soils, unplanted fields, record-rising rivers, runaway barges—this is what climate change looks…
• Climate Change Is Bringing Epic Flooding to the Midwest | WIRED
• Fundraiser by Terry Lewis : The Terrence Lewis Exoneration Fund
• Twitter
  RT @mhkeller: Women across the country are having to sue to get their rapes investigated. Evidence is so neglected it has grown m…
• How Chinese Spies Got the N.S.A.’s Hacking Tools, and Used Them for Attacks – The New York Times
• Never assume you have the slightest clue what anyone else is feeling | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian
• Climate change: 12 excuses for inaction and how to refute them – Vox
• These Rape Victims Had to Sue to Get the Police to Investigate – The New York Times
• Become Invincible. Then Make Cadbury Creme Egg Mayonnaise. – The Everywhereist
• ‘Fleabag’s’ soliloquy on menopause is the best three minutes of TV ever – Los Angeles Times
• Twitter
  RT @tracey_thorn: I remember when I used to see a bee and go, YIKES a bee! And now I’m all, Oh wow a bee, hi! You ok there? Need anyt…
• It’s Never Been Easier to Be a C.E.O., and the Pay Keeps Rising – The New York Times

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  RT @rakeshsatyal: I have thought of this Masha Gessen quote every day since it was published in January of 2017.
• Twitter
  RT @blkwomenradical: “The function of freedom is to free someone else.”

  — Toni Morrison

  #blackwomenradicals

• Twitter
  RT @DannyDutch: John Bonham has come back as an 8 year old girl, I can’t begin to describe how amazing this child is!!…
• Twitter
  RT @EricTopol: Cover and editorial this week’s @TheLancet

  "we must all stand up for women"

• DEFINE_ME
  RT @EricTopol: Cover and editorial this week’s @TheLancet

  "we must all stand up for women"

• Twitter
  RT @RepJayapal: I just sent this letter to @realDonaldTrump – who, as you heard, is the most transparent president ever.

  Signed,…

• Twitter
  RT @geekandahalf: Jesus.
• Twitter
  RT @jonallendc: And so it begins. The president has ordered a federal investigation into his perceived political adversaries.
• Twitter
  RT @jdesmondharris: Michelle Alexander always has the right words, the right perspective, and the intelligence to make sense of things…
• Good Times Bad Times – LED ZEPPELIN / Cover by Yoyoka , 8 year old drummer on Vimeo
• Opinion | My Rapist Apologized – The New York Times

  Michelle Alexander always has the right words, the right perspective, and the intelligence to make sense of things that are hard to make sense of. Please read today’s column https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/opinion/abortion-legislation-rape.html https://twitter.com/jdesmondharris/status/1131575661334675459/photo/1

• Twitter
  RT @41Strange: Owls captured by Camera Trap in Claremont, California.
  (Courtesy of Paul Faulstich)
• Twitter
  RT @joshtpm: This reader almost certainly right.
• Twitter
  RT @Abid_ism: love John carpenter’s answer on this and why I hate most of the trump related movie and tv commentary and allegory…
• ‘The Good Place’ Creator Mike Schur Breaks Down Season 3 – Rolling Stone
• Harriet Tubman: Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s Treasury secretary, delays putting her on $20 bill – The Washington Post

  This story is straight 🔥
  “Tubman never waited for a man to affirm her.
  Tubman reveled in defying men, defying governments, defying slavery, defying Confederate armies and slave catchers who put a $40,000 bounty on her head.”

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/05/22/whether-shes-bill-or-not-harriet-tubman-made-men-pay-underestimating-her/?utm_term=.7fffb4b9cae4

• White Male Terrorists Are an Issue We Should Discuss | Teen Vogue
• Twitter
  RT @JayInslee: This was supposed to be off the record.
• Rolling Stones Finally Give Richard Ashcroft Writing Credit
• Fleabag Season 2 Has a Perfect, Crushing Ending
• Twitter
  RT @bcmerchant: This is the tiniest, most minuscule tip of the iceberg here, and it’s going to get so much worse
• Slowly and Persistently, Elizabeth Warren Is On the Rise
• Who Will Win the 2020 Election? It’s Impossible to Know
• Twitter
  RT @nkjemisin: How many government employees went sleepless or hungry during the shutdown, for *this*? How many school lunches cou…
• Summer Books Preview: This season’s 35 hottest reads | EW.com
• Twitter
  RT @JoaquinCastrotx: Six children dead in eight months.

  No child had died for ten years before.

  This is an epidemic of death that de…

• Twitter
  RT @thehighsign: Another child migrant death has been reported since this story broke today, so we’re now at 6 kids in 8 months. The…
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  RT @m4rkmc: Samsung researchers have released a model that can generate faces in new poses from just a single image/frame (for…
• The Most Expensive Lesson Of My Life: Details of SIM port hack

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  RT @prisonculture: It’s exhausting to spend years warning about things, be accused of being hyperbolic, and then for people to act lik…
• Living In A Van in Google’s Backyard? Some Employees Make It Work – Bloomberg
• Grief & Anxiety: what to do when the worst has already happened – Refuge In Grief
• Megan Devine on Twitter: "Acknowledge your fear. It may seem silly, but taking a moment to recognize that you are afraid can keep the feeling from escalating. This & more on how to manage #anxiety inside #grief. (hint: it’s not like normal anxiety at all)
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  RT @rabihalameddine: Edgar Degas – Untitled (The Hourdel Road, near Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme), photograph, probably September 1895
• How to Write About Africa | Binyavanga Wainaina | Granta
  RT @emilyraboteau: Let’s revisit his opus, a magnificent and wickedly smart screed against cliche:
• Trump’s Financial Secrets Move Closer to Disclosure – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @SwiftOnSecurity: Wow he doesn’t even come up with an excuse like “error in transfer plates” he just straight up says they’re not put…
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  RT @schemaly: Rare victory: Amazon’s Waorani win legal fight against Ecuador’s government which had auctioned off their land for…
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  RT @41Strange: Male Hooded Seals have an inflatable nasal membrane that expands like a red balloon to attract females. The rules a…
• The Energy 202: EPA blocks a dozen products containing pesticides thought harmful to bees – The Washington Post
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  RT @tomscocca: Impeachment would be a months-long live TV program devoted to explaining and demonstrating all the ways in which Tr…
• Lucy Kalanithi on Twitter: "Grief books I love: – Grieving Mindfully by @sameetkumar – Healing a Spouse’s Grieving Heart by Alan Wolfelt ❤️ And many in this list, especially @ModernLoss: https://t.co/irLC5Z1huw"
• 16 Best Books about Grief 2019
• Twitter
  RT @pronounced_ing: There is no purpose to this other than to be cruel. And to test whether the American public will let it happen, so…
• Kenn White on Twitter: "This is Aussie acrobat Jiemba Sands and he is a *wildly* talented (wait for the part with the high heels) https://t.co/LeTh4AFkhX"
• in-an-odd-move-trump-shifts-his-banking-business-to-a-small-firm-in-florida
• The Socialism Panic Is The Right’s Trick To Justify Trump
• asciinema – Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way
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• And Then There Were Four: Phone Booths Saved on Upper West Side Sidewalks – The New York Times
• Truth, Beauty, and Oliver Sacks | by Simon Callow | The New York Review of Books
• Twitter
  RT @UnlikelyWorlds: Mars, yesterday.
• Oil brings wealth, while climate change brings displacement to Middle East – HoustonChronicle.com
• Twitter
  RT @ezralevin: The eye-popping stat here that everybody needs to internalize and grapple with: in 2040, half the country will live…
• The Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die | GQ
• Why Women Choose Abortion Over Adoption – The Atlantic
• Thousands of immigrants forced into solitary confinement by ICE
• Gwendoline Christie interview – ‘I feel deeply emotional about Game Of Thrones ending’ | British GQ
• Sea levels may rise faster than predicted, displacing up to 187 million people, study finds
  Sea levels may rise faster than predicted, displacing up to 187 million people, study finds
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  Sea levels may rise faster than predicted, displacing up to 187 million people, study finds
• ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’ premiering on Netflix in August | EW.com
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  Global sea-level rise could be double our current predictions
• Untitled (https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613561/global-sea-level-rise-could-be-double-our-current-predictions/)
  Global sea-level rise could be double our current predictions
• ‘Fleabag’ Season 2: The Power of the Fourth Wall – Rolling Stone
• Barbara Neely, The Activist-Turned-Crime Writer Who Inspired A Generation | CrimeReads
• Hidden Heroines of Chaos: Ellen Fetter and Margaret Hamilton | Quanta Magazine
• Why study history? Because it can save us from democratic collapse. – The Washington Post
• Comparing Machine Learning Models for Predictions in Cloud Dataflow Pipelines  |  Solutions  |  Google Cloud
  using TF models from Dataflow
• Neus Català, Dogged Anti-Fascist and Camp Survivor, Dies at 103 – The New York Times
• I don’t like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence) – YouTube
• Washington becomes first state to legalize human composting | The Seattle Times

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